Slava Vitsev

My question is:Why the Moon is moving away from Earth? This means that energy is added to the Earth-Moon system. Where did it come from? It would be logical to assume that tidal interaction should have the opposite effect and pick up energy from the system due to frictional heating of the rocks and tidal waves?

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